Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
by:
David Cressy (author)
Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. Drawing on local texts and narratives he reveals how a series of troubling and unorthodox...
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Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. Drawing on local texts and narratives he reveals how a series of troubling and unorthodox happenings--bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, nakedness and cross-dressing, excommunication and irregular burial, iconoclasm and vandalism--disturbed the margins, cut across the grain, and set the authorities on edge.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192825308 (0192825305)
Publish date: May 10th 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
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